Moa China/ Japan Rebuild/ Vietnam War/ 1970's - 1990's

Question 1

These were teens, young adults who used violence and intimidation against the bourgeois and other opposition in China during the Cultural Revolution

Answer 1

The Red Guards

Question 2

The Communist leader or China beginning in 1949

Answer 2

Mao Zedong

Question 3

The US president who made the historic visit to China in 1972, starting a time period with less tensions during the cold war

Answer 3

Nixon

Question 4

This group were the rebel fighters and supporters of Communism and Ho Chi Minh who lived in South Vietnam

Answer 4

Vietcong

Question 5

This was the group who overthrew the Cambodia government in 1975 and made the people leave the cities for forced farm labor resulting in over 1,000,000 deaths

Answer 5

Khmer Rouge

Question 6

Longtime leader of the independence movement who led the rebellions against foreign control of Vietnam.

Answer 6

Ho Chi Minh

Question 7

Soviet leader whos openness and restructuring policies allowed the Russians a taste of Western culture and economic practices

Answer 7

Gorbachev

Question 8

The name given to refugees who fled South Vietnam following North Vietnam’s takeover and change to communist rule in 1975

Answer 8

Boat People

Question 9

The Afghani, Islamic rebel group, supported by the US with weapons to fight against the Soviet invasion

Answer 9

Mujahdeen

Question 10

The leader of the USSR when the breakup of the republics occurred in 1991

Answer 10

Gorbachev

Question 11

Led by Lech Walesa, It was the name of the outlawed shipyard workers union in Poland that played an initial role in looking to gain worker’s rights during the early eighties

Answer 11

Glasnost

Question 12

The Great Leap Forward was the name of the policies to rapidly develop a steel making industry as well as huge production in farming in what country

Answer 12

China

Question 13

This nation prospered economically during the 1960’s and in part due their ability to invest tax money into their industry and not defense/military since the US had armed forces based in their country for protection.

Answer 13

Cuba

Question 14

What was the name of the battle where the Vietminh defeated the French in 1953, causing the French to give up their colony in Indochina

Answer 14

Dien Bien Phu

Question 15

Which SE Asian country was split into Communist north and non-communist south due to the Geneva Accords in 1955

Answer 15

Vietnam

Question 16

This was the name of a decade long period of better relations between the superpowers during the Cold War (ANSWER A) that came to and end when the USSR invaded which country (ANSWER B) in 1979

Answer 16

A:Detente
B: Afghanistan

Question 17

The Domino Theory was seen as a significant threat by the US to occur in what region if the world?

Answer 17

Southeast Asia

Question 18

On what continent did many Marxist uprising occur in many of the young, newly independent nation from the 1950’s to the 1970’s

Answer 18

Africa

Question 19

What was the country where the Khmer Rouge tried to erase all signs of westernization and force the people to lead an agricultural lifestyle

Answer 19

Cambodia

Question 20

Due to the Solidarity movement, what Eastern European country was the first to break free from Soviet influence, Iron Curtain control in 1989

Answer 20

Poland

Question 21

Answer with the location of what is described below
——————————————————————————– In what city was the barrier which the barrier symbolized the Cold War, opened up and torn down in 1989

Answer 21

Berlin (wall)

Question 22

The first of the many Soviet republics to declare its independence from USSR control in 1990

Answer 22

Lithuania

Question 23

Why did the US and the South Vietnamese not allow a democratic election which would have unified both North and South Vietnam together in 1956 (LONG ANSWER)

Answer 23

They figured that Ho Chi Minh would easily win and would eventually unite the nation under a communist government

Question 24

Why was the year 1968 viewed as the turning point of the Vietnam War (LONG ANSWER)

Answer 24

The “Tet offensive” showed that no one was safe. They didn’t succeed but it still reached the US, making families at home fear. Along with the Ani-War movement

Question 25

What is Detente? What were 2 reasons why this time period happened and what were 2 reasons why it came to an end.

Answer 25

Detente was a period of time when tentions were low and the US and the USSR were getting along. Nixon going to China and the US troop removal/withdraw were 2 reasons on why this happended.
The overthrow of the Pro-Soviet leader and Reagans increase of military were 2 reasonsons this came to an end

Question 26

Who led the Great Leap Forward?

Answer 26

Mao Zedong

Question 27

When did the Great Leap Forward happen

Answer 27

1958

Question 28

What was the Great Leap Forward

Answer 28

1st policy to make “Superhuman” improvements in farming/ industrial forces

Question 29

What is SALT 1 and 2

Answer 29

treaties

Question 30

When were the SALT treaties put into place (2 years)

Answer 30

1972 and 1979

Question 31

What does SALT stand for

Answer 31

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Question 32

What did the SALT treaties do

Answer 32

US and USSR leaders sign treaties banning certain nuke tests and ICBM’s

Question 33

What was Glasnost and who put it into place

Answer 33

It was an openness policy that Gorbachev out into place

Question 34

What did Glasnost do and what did it help with

Answer 34

It improved international relations and incorporated western influence and culture

Question 35

What was Perestroika and who put it into place

Answer 35

It was a restructuring policy that Gorbachev put into place

Question 36

what did Perestroika lead to and what did it help with

Answer 36

It led to economic changed as helped with Command Economy

Question 37

What was Solidarity and what was it a predecessor to?

Answer 37

Meant together and support
Predecessor to Glasnost
Movement?

Question 38

Who lead Solidarity and who was involved, and what did they push for

Answer 38

Workers labor union in Polish Shipyards (1980)
Led by Lesh Walesa
Pushed for Better nights and Conditions